I'd like to see the Penguin given a go with this set of producers. It'd be good to see him with some of the nearly overboard-rusticness that this current set of Batman movies has given the characters, so he could be portrayed as a little bit more than just an evil monopoly man.
Heath Ledger, as with most people, was canonised upon death. He might very well get a posthumous Oscar for it - consider how Ray Charles' well timed death launched his biographical movie straight to the top of all the awards lists a couple years ago.
It's interesting how the reality surrounding the makers of the picture appears more cartoonish than the picture itself.
I think the closest thing to a rational explanation for The Penguin was given in Burton's version. Deformed baby, abandoned and raised by... Penguins... Then inherits fortune and causes trouble.
Then he rode a giant evil rubber ducky. And his umbrella was swirly...
I'm having trouble seeing how they could bring him to the more veristic version they're shooting for...
There's a timekeeper badguy who has plans that are just insane, possibly something interesting could be done with him.
The sad part is that I generally quite enjoyed Heath Ledger's roles but now admitting I liked it but that it wasn't the most intense movie villain to ever exist seems like I'm letting the side down :P
I think if you ever get into a heated discussion with a Ledgerite just shoot out some pretentious classic villain like the voice of HAL 9000 in '2001 A Space Odyssey'. Come on, better villain by a mile.
Heath Ledger as the Joker was good, and 'Dark Knight' was a cool movie, but lets not get fucking carried away just because there was a convenient death, eh?
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Heath Ledger, as with most people, was canonised upon death. He might very well get a posthumous Oscar for it - consider how Ray Charles' well timed death launched his biographical movie straight to the top of all the awards lists a couple years ago.
It's interesting how the reality surrounding the makers of the picture appears more cartoonish than the picture itself.
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Then he rode a giant evil rubber ducky. And his umbrella was swirly...
I'm having trouble seeing how they could bring him to the more veristic version they're shooting for...
There's a timekeeper badguy who has plans that are just insane, possibly something interesting could be done with him.
The sad part is that I generally quite enjoyed Heath Ledger's roles but now admitting I liked it but that it wasn't the most intense movie villain to ever exist seems like I'm letting the side down :P
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Heath Ledger as the Joker was good, and 'Dark Knight' was a cool movie, but lets not get fucking carried away just because there was a convenient death, eh?
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If they had avoided so much didactic dialogue somehow I might've been more enthused by it.
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Though he certainly ventured from the "Heath Ledger" space I had built in my mind.
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